When approached by an undercover investigator for advice on how to steal the votes of more than 100 people, Moran advised falsifying documents to satisfy Virginia’s new voter ID law. He said, “Bank statement obviously would be tough, but they can fake a utility bill with ease.”

Moran went on to clarify that, “You’d have to forge it.”

Announcing the release, James O’Keefe said, “This is the most damning evidence to date of the scope of voter fraud in this country. Patrick Moran is not only the son of an 11-term Congressman, but is also the Field Director on his father’s re-election campaign.”

When the investigator makes it clear what he’s proposing to do, Moran doesn’t shy away from it; he says, “Here, let’s go outside,” and proceeds to talk with the investigator for more than fifteen minutes. At two points he briefly suggests that investigator’s energy would be better spent in conventional get-out-the-vote efforts, but then continues giving advice on how to pull off the fraud. At one point he seems to say that an Obama-campaign attorney will be available to defend the fraudulent documents if necessary.

Lest anyone wonder whether Mr. Moran’s words were unfairly taken out of context, Project Veritas has already made the entire eighteen-and-a-half-minute unedited video publicly available; it begins around 8:25 in the video above.

This is what happens when you let your stoner son work on your campaign.

I’m not going to deny that voter fraud exists, of course it does. But are you suggesting that Republicans have never engaged in voter fraud? (technically, this video doesn’t prove that voter fraud exists because the voter fraud wasn’t real. It was made up by the reporter).

As to Mr. Moron’s legal liability (which I actually find to be the most interesting question), he can’t be liable for a federal conspiracy because federal conspiracy liability requires bilateral participation by two culpable actors. That is not present here. As to whether he could be liable in a unilateral jurisdiction (I’m not familiar with Virginia’s conspiracy laws), I think the answer is no, because there was no overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. Moron did nothing except give advice on how to break the law, which I don’t believe amounts to a conspiracy if that’s all the farther it goes.